Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-05
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9. D. BELpEN, EDITOR.

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tin is teaching near St. Cloud.
About thirty were present at the
Grand Meadow Teachers Examina-:
ton last Friday.
Principal Tibbitts, of the Grand
Meadow village schools. is conduct
ing an intermediate educational col
umn in the Record.
Miss Jessie Beiseker,who was mar.
ried Tuesday, is one OF our success
full county teachers. ~.
The. Brownsville schools opened
Monday with Mr.. VIM. H. Palmer as
principal and Miss Anna Stokes in
the PRIMARY room. There Will be
ten weeks in the fall term.
Public examination of teachers at
the Court House, in Austin, next Fri.
day morning. The law prohibits
the renewal or issuing Of any GER
tifcates until a satisfactory examin-
alton in Temperance hygiene has
been passed.
Miss Mamie Sawyer, Of Chat6eld,
goes this week to Lincoln, Neb., to
teach.
All teachers are required by law
to teach regularlyand Systematically,
physiology and hygiene with special
reference to the effect Of stimulants
and narcotics upon the human sys-
tenn. The certificates of all who neg.
lect this instruction will be revoked.
The annual report OF the County
Superintendent of Schools to the
State department, shows the follow
ing statistics for the year ending
July 81. 1887. for Mower county:
Number of scholars entitled to ap-
portlonment in attendance at public
schools, 4,447; not entitled, 1876.
Winter enrolment, 1873; Summer
enrolment, 1896.
Number Of different teachers during
year: males, "a; females, 100. Total
number Of districts 1875. Number
Of school houses 1872. New school
houses built, 8, and one purchased.
Value Of school houses, sll3,4U0;
value ofapparatus, s2,44a. Paid for
teachers wages, sso,ls2.4o; number
of visits by County superintendent
PA; number of certificates issued,
al, as follows: Is, first grade; l0l
second grade; lo7, third grade. No.
of applicants rejected, "a; number
of examinations held, ~; number of
pupils between 8 and Is years of
age, 1881; between and s, 1000;
between Is and 81, GIT; number of
trees on school grounds in county,
1852; number of teachers who have
attended Normal school, 80; average
rate of school tax, .00426; average
wages paid to teaehers: male, $s5-
3.4; females, $26-2-3.
INSTRUCTION IN COMMON SCHOOLS.
BY STATE SUPERINTENDENT K1EHLE.
The final test of the value of a
| school is it's instruction. We may
have poor house, no apparatus and
few books, and yet having a good
teacher we shall have a good school.
On the other hand, with every sur
rounding Of the BEST but without a
good teacher, the school will be a
failure. What, then, is the kind of
instruction that the great army of
our youth in our State receives from
year to year?
First, as to scholarship. Estimat-
ing from the certificates granted we
have:
First grade teachers per cent
Second grade teachers SO per cent
Third grade teachers 40 per cent
| Now, to appreciate what this
means, let it be remembered that any
boy or girl who has creditably COM
pleted common school education
has all the scholarship necessary for
a second grade teachers certificate.
This, too, is the lowest county certi-
fcate that is issued. It appears,
then, that forty per cent. Of all the
teachers have less than q common
school education, and are licensed
for a single district 70, six months.
This means that 100000 children Of
Minnesota. are in the hands Of per.
sons not prepared even by . decent
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